August 3, 2018 Parable of the Day: Explaining the Concept of Paradise Saint Innocent (Veniaminov) of Moscow used the following parable to explain the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven to his parishioners. – Imagine…
August 3, 2018 An Interview with Patriarch Bartholomew I on the Place of the Church in the World This interview comes days after His All Holiness paid a visit to Bulgaria for the opening of new churches in the Burgas region where…
August 3, 2018 Tentmaking for Present Day Clerics or How Priests Combine Their Service with a Second Job When people meet me, they are usually surprised to learn that not only am I an Orthodox Christian priest, but that I also work…
August 2, 2018 Parable of the Day: How We Turn into Thankless Beggars In a certain village, there was a priest. This is a story he told the people who did not go to church on Sundays:…
August 2, 2018 What to Do When Your Child States a Conflict Between Church and Science Problem: While on Christmas vacation from college, my daughter told me that one of her professors said that sex outside marriage was not against…
August 2, 2018 Does God not Hear Me if My Depression Is not Going away? Question: I have persistent depression and a certain inner tension, I have asked God to forgive my sins, but it seems to me that…
August 1, 2018 May or May not God the Father Be Depicted in Orthodox Iconography? Read through any collection of Gary Larson’s The Far Side cartoons, and you will doubtless come across a cartoon image of God as an…
August 1, 2018 Personal Stories about the Modern Day Miracles of St. Seraphim of Sarov Vladimir S. “Now see, young man, that you don’t let me down.” In August of 2007, my wife and I took a tour of…
July 31, 2018 Parable of the Day: What Do Grievance and Potato Have in Common? Once a man came to an elder and saw that he was very kind to everyone. The man asked him: – You’re so…
July 31, 2018 An Orthodox Perspective on the Problem of Child Abuse An apparently new social concern has risen in our days which highlights the abuse of children. Child abuse is generally understood in our day…
July 31, 2018 “Only God Can Save Mankind!” St. Gregory of Nyssa once said that the goal of Christianity is to be like God, become like God in the manifestations of our…
July 30, 2018 Parable of the Day: A Friendship Ruined by Pride There were two friends who lived in an Arabic country. They would meet at a fireplace every evening and talk sitting on small three-legged…
